Originally Posted by JMFburns

I hear you all and appreciate each and every one of you, with your different experiences - some with loved ones working on recovery, some with loved ones rebelling against recovery, some with no contact with their loved ones, their actual offspring, the ones we gave birth to and raised - ARGH, it's like ripping out my heart with my own fist. But I hear that you are surviving, some even thriving, and I want so badly to be you, to have what you have, to be strong. How? I pray for your prayers to keep trying.